During the COVID-19 pandemic, record numbers of households, including nearly 14 million children, reported not having enough to eat. In response, the federal government enacted a set of far-reaching relief measures, expanding both USDA nutrition assistance programs as well as other economic safety net measures. Within a sample of low-wage workers with children, this research More
Keywords: COVID-19, Food insecurity
Date: July 2022
Resource Type: Grant Summary
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access Nutrition Policy & Programs
Households with children ages 6 and younger are at a particularly high risk of food insecurity (14.3% food insecure). These are also the households in which new pregnancies are most likely to occur. The Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is designed to improve the health of low-income pregnant and post-partum women, More
Date: February 2020
Resource Type: Grant Summary
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access Nutrition Policy & Programs
This project will examine the linkages between tribal government food policies and tribal community health, with a focus on the impact of food policy on obesity prevention among children and adolescents and the promotion of healthy eating. This project aims to study and report on three primary issues: 1) tribal communities’ use of food sovereignty More
Date: February 2016
Resource Type: Grant Summary
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access Nutrition Policy & Programs
This review summarizes growing evidence of disparities in the social and physical environments of U.S. children and adolescents that likely contribute to increased risk for obesity and poor nutrition. The review examines literature on disparities in nutrition and healthy food access in school, child-care, and residential neighborhood environments, food production and marketing practices, and cultural More
Date: January 2015
Resource Type: Journal Article
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Early Childhood Food Access Food Marketing Nutrition Policy & Programs School & After School
The Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition produced a special journal issue highlighting papers and discussions from the April 2009 conference, “Food Systems and Public Health: Linkages to Achieve Healthier Diets and Healthier Communities.” The conference convened more than 100 leading researchers and practitioners nationwide from the health, nutrition, obesity and health policy arenas, as More
Date: December 2009
Resource Type: Special Journal Issue
Focus Areas: Diet Quality & Healthy Weight Food Access Nutrition Policy & Programs Pricing & Economics